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Robert Pape's "Escalation Trap" Theory Takes a Dangerous TurnIran as the "Fourth Center of Global Power" is a FallacyProfessor Robert Pape is a much sought-after military analyst on talk shows and podcasts these days. His Escalation Trap theory injected a modicum of logic and predictive modeling, that anticipated Nero Germanicus's wild and incoherent decisions, which proliferated into calls for…